Seattle police continue to adapt well to cannabis legalization. (Though you may have to read carefully all the way through to hear their quiet chuckling.) I don’t know how good this “uncrackable” texting app is. I do know it’s yet another great sign that the tech world will smack down the NSA. (Tip o’ hat to MJR) And this is great, too. Kicking the No Such Agency and defending the Fourth while doing good deeds. In public. Here’s one I’ve been meaning to write a longer screed on but just haven’t been able to get to: the difference between knowing…
Category: Humor
Be back later with actual content. In the meantime, here’s a great giveaway and a little laugh. The giveaway The folks at BioLite (the stove that’s almost as cool & groovy as my favorite old device formerly known as Pyromid, now EcoQue) are giving away a preparedness pack that’s loaded with some of the best of the best preparedness equipment. A SteriPen water purifier, versatile Eton FRX3 emergency radio (one of which I have, courtesy of friend T.), Mountain House entrees, and of course a BioLite campstove, among other things. Check it out. (You’ll need JavaScript enabled to see the…
What caliber have you found most effective for battling the zombie hordes? Have you had to saw off your own leg or remove your own appendix because no doctors were available? After your neighbors starved to death did you find anything really cool and useful in their house? Which were the first items to disappear off your local grocery shelves and how bad were the riots when people discovered that they couldn’t get Fruity-Choco-SugarLoops? Now that Internet and phone service have both collapsed, what are you using for alternative communications? If you had to travel, how did you manage, what…
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Movie: The Movie Okay, this has been around for a year already. But it’s still funny as all get out. And how, oh how, did Kimmel’s crew manage to get all those megastars to cooperate — then coordinate them? (Via Never Yet Melted)
Mark Steyn on America as a banana republic. Political views mess up your ability to do math. Probably other things, too. Fascinating study but not surprising. Another example of confirmation bias in action. Do you get junk emails from your acquaintances urging you to connect with them on LinkedIn? I used to get a fair number of those and thought, “Wow, for people who supposedly know me, these guys are sure idiots.” Like I’m ever going to join LinkedIn. Like I think it’s just wonderful for acquaintances to give my address to all and sundry. Then I got a fervently…
“The FBI was the obvious suspect.” What a perfect choice of words. (H/T JB) Rescued fighting dogs now “being trained to love.” Don’t really think they need training to love; mainly to trust after the hells they’ve been through. Happier dogs — and cats — at The Fluffington Post. Are pants-pissing cowards attracted to police work? Or does the job bring it out in them? At least this time when the cops were forced to investigate themselves for shooting dead an unarmed man they didn’t find that “procedures were followed.” Summers is out. And here’s a nice little act of…
Things are bad in the Stasi state. Things get worse in the Stasi state. Worse yet, each revelation of governmental lawlessness, Big Brotherism, and contempt for We the People is met with a giant yawn. It’s so easy to despair. Then along comes a reminder that not everybody is yawning. What you laugh at says a lot. The story arc for the above started with the September 6 panel. H/T to JB for making my day.